This Day in Yesteryear: September 20th
1863: Union forces are held back by General Braxton Bragg and the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga, leading thousands of hack novelists to wonder "what if the North actually won the battle instead of losing, and what if UFOs had intervened?"
1973: Male rights activist Bobby Riggs is beaten in a battle-of-sexes tennis match by Billie Jean King, sending the Men's Rights Movement back twenty years.
1998: After playing 2,632 straight games for the Baltimore Orioles, third baseman Cal Ripken, Jr. finally decides to call out sick. He spends the entire day watching reruns of Golden Girls on Lifetime and worrying that his teammate Rafael Palmeiro would rat him out to coach Ray Miller.
Happy 78th birthday to pop psychologist Joyce Brothers who made a career of giving fake advice to idiots.
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